Richard Hingston

Major Richard William George Hingston MC FRGS (17 January 1887 – 5 August 1966) was an Irish physician, explorer and naturalist who worked in India with the Indian Medical Service.

He was the youngest son of Frances (née Sandiford, c. 1855-1947) and the Reverend Richard Edward Hull Hingston (1859–1924), a Church of Ireland rector, of Aglish, County Waterford.

He secured second place in the I.M.S. examination, among the eminent group which included T. A. Hughes, the physiologist, Clive Newcomb, the research chemist, and Henry Shortt, the parasitologist.

This post enabled him to conduct new and innovative research which provided rich fields of scientific treasure for several I.M.S. officers such as Alcock and Sewell.

[7] Hingston's son emigrated to Australia at the age of 20 and served as a medical officer in the Royal Australian Navy, reaching the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant.

He subsequently undertook a mission to Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika to investigate the methods of preserving the indigenous fauna.

After the Second World War, Hingston retired to his family home of Horsehead in Passage West, County Cork, where he died on 5 August 1966, at the age of 79.